gotta know when your counter Ambush
opportunity is and you've got to be
prepared to use it
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robbery number one this dude was hanging
around outside on his bicycle for some
time the original has a video of him
just hanging out there on his bicycle
waiting for the right time to launch his
armed robbery so now he's gonna take his
backpack off you see him wearing a mask
and gloves and a hat indoors like this
in June that's all red flags shows a gun
in his waistband and now he is going to
you know bring the manager here and the
clerk up in order to steal all the money
out of the registers so again you see
him he's got his hand on the gun here
and notice again he's got significant
gloves on here so he's gonna pull that
gun out and stick it in the back of the
one Clerk's neck and then gonna get her
to go and get the money out of the
registers and you can see the the kind
of a shift manager here is sitting there
watching them do that while he is again
sticking a gun to her neck nobody else
around in this particular time I don't
know if our purposely got that but since
the clerk is having a hard time he's
going to tell the manager hey you open
it up and she is going to kind of like
push on the guy a little bit who wants
them to put the money in the backpack
you see you're kind of oh okay oh gosh I
had a key here the whole time and so
then he's finally going to get into
there there and use his all fan to stick
the money out of the register into his
backpack while the other employee kind
of just stands there well now it's going
to go to the other one and then get the
money once he does he leaves second one
here this one is kind of interesting you
see this guy kind of walk in here and
and just kind of nonchalant you can see
it's almost one o'clock in the morning
when he does that here at least
according to the time stamp gonna come
up and point a gun at this Clerk and the
clerk didn't see him at first and freaks
out tries to run off and the guy takes a
shot at him thankfully that shot missed
and and but it caused our clerk to fall
down and you can see him now trying to
kind of run away from the guy and see if
he can get away but now there's another
employee that's also in the store and so
he gets that employee to obey him and
she is going to go back to the back of
beating this up for the sake of time or
back to the registers rather and stick
the money in that bag from the till okay
man there you go you've got all the cash
that we got he's gonna grab some
cigarettes while he makes her go get the
second till as well then he's gonna grab
that bag from her and and again waiting
for this third till in the money to show
up and she is going to give that to him
get the money out put it in a bag and
then he is going to then grab that and
off he goes and he is going to run off
third one actually super interesting I
want you to notice the fact notice it
says 1948 this is just before this store
closes at 8pm and this customer this
guy's gonna come into the store and act
like a customer and then he's going to
hide in the store when they close the
store so you watch him just kind of come
in here and find a place to hide and now
you notice it says 20 25 so about 45
minutes later he is going to show up
again after they lock the doors and they
had the safe open and all that stuff in
order to Rob them and this is the first
time I've seen something like that
happen pointing a gun at this guy and
now again the guys hands up okay fine I
don't know if that's a man or a woman
there or whatever but the second clerk
he's gonna get her to come back around
as well and again same thing he's going
to tell them I want the deposits so not
just the money out of the till but I
want the money that was in the safe with
the deposit bags and all that stuff hand
them a convenient baggie with which to
you know a shopping bag with which to
put all of the money we're starting to
see patterns here and we're going to
talk about what to do with those
patterns in a little bit so uh clerk
who's going to empty that one there and
then grab the other stuff so that's the
deposit bags and all that stuff from the
day of retail sales grab the other one
too although this one's kind of funny I
think there's like ones and fives there
on the right where the clerk's gonna
offer a bunch of that stuff and be like
hey you want the ones and fives and
apparently this guy doesn't want the
ones and fives out of that that register
that the clerk has in their hand here
gonna actually then tell the female
employee that hey I want you to come
with me so that you can unlock the front
door so that I can get out of here and
she is going to be very complex client
with him and do exactly that we
definitely want to think about our
counter ambushing opportunities here as
good armed citizens I wish any of these
citizens had been armed there was many
opportunities for them to stop this and
we're going to look at them in the
lessons Hey listen you've got to know
how fast your draw and first hit is to
get that the way that you learn those
skills go to gun school go to a live
fire class and also you can get an awful
lot on active Self Protection extra we
teach this stuff every day of the week
so go check it out the link to the
channel is in the description gonna come
pretty quick here when you see this guy
he shows up that he wants that and now
you notice here that he turns his
shoulder a little bit now he's going to
end up coming over the register and we
want to talk about this one with both
the kind of shift manager and the
employee I think either one of them
could have been armed and could have
done something about it here I think the
guy is still kind of looking down and
away but not having turned his head very
far we'll see that in a second this
would have taken an expert straw if
you've got a one second draw you can
probably get him here also I think he's
got gloves on and that will cause him
problems in his draw so you have some
time here if you've got a decent draw
now here is a perfect way to get in the
fight because number one his right hand
which he's right-handed is down on the
counter number two he has showed them
his ear if you have a 1.5 or even here I
think a 2.0 because he's climbing over
the counter with his hand off the gun
and not expecting anything you got a two
second draw to first shot here you are
going to get this guy and you are going
to win this gun fight okay so generally
we say if he shows you his ear it takes
a 1.5 second draw but when he's climbing
over the counter you get at least a half
a second for that for him to reorient
try to find you and those kinds of
things so two second drawing for a shot
there no problem
now he first goes to the employee now
think about the manager here he has
turned his back to the manager so here a
two second draw in first shot there's
nothing he is going to do in order to
get you uh you know get his gun around
to you if you have a two second drawing
for a shot of course the only way you're
going to know that if you have it is if
you actually put it on the clock with
Marksmanship standards and especially
here I think a surreptitious draw the
ability to get a gun out without you
know uh letting him know because you're
visually very loud would be very
important now he does have the hand on
the gun and and now the gun comes out
now listen again there's another
opportunity right there and and still
the manager has significant
opportunities here 1.5 and 2.0 I mean
she's got old day to go and get this guy
right now and just burn him down now you
might say well wait a minute you know
she had the gun to that other clerks
back yeah which one would have made the
other ones I think a better choice now
the employee is the one who has the
opportunities here because then he gives
her that now let's think in this second
one as a guy comes up here the very
first thing that our clerk knows that
something's wrong is when this guy comes
up pointing a gun at him and and when
it's right up next to him and that
attention buys you time and time buys
you options so just not getting so
tunnel visioned into your task that you
don't see somebody in your periphery
that comes when you don't expect it at
one o'clock in the morning is a way to
get attacked so again just pay attention
to your world a little bit better might
give you a little bit more opportunity a
little bit more distance now actually
our clerk here deciding he is going to
run off actually was a reasonable
strategy you noticed that the guy did
take a shot at him but most perps can't
shoot at all they're very bad Marksman
and and they're they're good at using
the gun but they're very poor Marksman
and so getting some distance away from
them can give you some success but again
you gotta not just run away from danger
you've got to run to safety that didn't
happen here this guy spooked and then
ended up on the ground ended up not
being able to get away okay fine
distance though is definitely your
friend so if you have the opportunity to
run away from danger do so very very
quickly and again get to safety not just
running away from danger because you can
see the guys on the ground here
thankfully this guy's not you know a
stone cold murderer and didn't keep
pulling the trigger in fact it wouldn't
surprise me if this was actually a
negligent discharge that he had here now
our second clerk here doesn't have a
whole lot of opportunities there are a
couple of them though let's pay
attention because she's going to come up
here and he's really paying good
attention to her and purposeful
compliances the way in that place and
that might mean complying all the way
through the robbery without even
thinking about it now that said right
here you notice that he is definitely
looking away there and if she had a 1.5
drawing first shot she could have got
him in that moment second one that she
is going to have available to her here
is that just as he is turning a lead
when he goes around the backside there
and around that little display case he
can't see her in that moment and that is
when she had another opportunity to get
a gun in the fight but she didn't okay
fine no big deal now this last one's
pretty interesting here we got a couple
of more opportunities for ambushes as
our clerk that's on screen here gets
down on the ground notice that he kind
of point the gun at her but then turned
his face away again a 1.5 drawn first
shot would have got that one one even a
little bit better when he is going to
kind of walk over to go see the other
clerk now he's turned the shoulder over
you notice he's turned shoulder to him
okay now a 2.0 drawn first shot but of
course that's going to evaporate when we
have another uh clerk in the foreground
but those opportunities did exist in
here in this one but now that he's
paying attention to the clerk who's on
screen I don't know what the clerk off
screen is doing they might have had
opportunities as well but remember when
his eyes are on you and the gun's on you
you can't draw a gun because that is
drawing from the drop and that's a great
way to get killed and when you don't
have the opportunity what we do is
purposeful compliance is do what he says
don't don't comply halfway comply fully
or resist fully hey let me out no
problem here you go man that's it I
don't want any problems from you Mater
get out of the way okay great no big
deal he did so and that nobody was
harmed here but I do want us to all have
an understanding of how to do better
than this to end the threat sooner and
cover our aspect